The Province of Hope (Paperback)

Johnny Verliebt is a young man with many lives. One is that of a college student from an affluent suburban family; the other is one of sleepless nights and racing thoughts that can only be quieted by alcohol and drugs. Soon after Johnny falls in love with a young medical student named Robert, he suffers a psychotic breakdown and begins life with bipolar affective disorder. Believing that he is unable to care for himself and that his only hope for survival lies with Robert, he abandons Texas for a new life with his mentor in Boston. But Johnny learns that Robert may be unwilling to sacrifice a life of respectability for love, even if it means losing his troubled but alluring protA(c)gA(c). Returning home, Johnny is struggling to understand his existence through writing when he meets Matt, a precocious working class boy about to enter college. As Johnny begins his first novel, The Province of Hope, he embarks on a difficult journey towards trust, love, and the possibility that he can rebuild his broken heart and mind.